THE arrest and charge of former vice-president of group marketing at Sagicor Group Jamaica, Alysia Moulton White, on Wednesday created shockwaves that sent her attorney Bert Samuels into battle mode.

Multiple charges were laid against Moulton White to include conspiracy to defraud, unlawfully making device and data available for the commission of an offence, engaging in transaction that involved a criminal offence and receiving stolen property.

She is set to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on February 21, 2023.

Samuels, however, told the Jamaica Observer on Wednesday that his client maintains her innocence and moved to clarify that her matter isn’t connected to the $65-million fraud case against her sister Tricia Moulton, a former Sagicor Bank manager, and Malika McLeod, a former personal banker at the same institution.

Moulton and McLeod, who are out on bail, are scheduled to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on the same day that Moulton White is scheduled to face a parish judge.

“The allegation has nothing to do with the $65-million case,” Samuels told the Observer.

“These charges arise out of a total of $661,000. That is the amount she is facing. We do not wish to confuse this sum with any other sum in relation to another case,” Samuels said.

He told journalists that he was alarmed about the basis on which she was charged. He denied any allegation of criminal conduct on the part of his client, whom he described as an innocent and young professional who has been drawn into a matter.

In November, Sagicor announced that the company was undergoing a restructuring exercise and as a result, the position of vice-president of group marketing, held by Moulton-White, would no longer form part of its structure come December 31.

The company announced that it is in a process of streamlining operations to achieve greater efficiencies.